Editing Castlefield (section)

===Industrialisation===
[[File:Castlefield Grocers4652.JPG|thumb|Bridgewater Canal & Grocer's Warehouse Ruins]]

The [[Bridgewater Canal]] arrived in Castlefield in July 1761, around the time the [[Industrial Revolution]] is considered to have started.<ref name=et376>{{cite web|url=http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=376|title=Engineering Timelines - Bridgewater Canal, Castlefield Basin|website=www.engineering-timelines.com|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1-JiCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT147|page=147|title=Manchester to Bugsworth|author1=Phil Page|author2=Ian Littlechilds|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|date= 15 June 2015|isbn=9781445640938}}</ref> The [[Rochdale Canal]], and a network of private branch canals joined the Bridgewater at Lock 92 in Castlefield. The Bridgewater Canal company hesitated in connecting their canal the adjacent [[Mersey and Irwell Navigation]] until the Rochdale Canal Company had almost constructed its [[Manchester and Salford Junction Canal]], and the railways had arrived in the 1830s.  As the century progressed the canals gave way to the railways and the area became dissected by a network of railway lines carried on a series of multi-arch viaducts. Though Castlefield did have [[cotton mill]]s, it was the [[factory|engineering work]]s and [[warehousing]] that was more noticeable. The first [[canal warehouse]], built in 1771 on Coal Wharf, was used to raise coal from the barges to street level, and store other goods. In the nineteenth century the warehouses assumed other functions such as [[trans-shipment]] which involved receiving trains or barges, and reassembling their loads to be shipped to other destinations. Other warehouses received raw materials such as yarn, which was collected by [[outworker]]s who then returned woven cloth. The later warehouses acted as [[showroom]]s on the ground floors, with offices and storage above and behind.<ref name="Parkinson-Bailey 2000 16">{{Harvnb|Parkinson-Bailey|2000|p=16}}</ref>